Cigarette-box.



A. MENDELSON IL S. I. GOLDBERG.

CIGARETTE BOX.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 4, i913.

Patented June 29, I915 pga WlT/IIESSES f M w at i www 5 ARGE MENDELSONAND SHEPABD J. GOLDBEBG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGARETTE-BOX.

matassa Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed ctober 4, 1913. Serial No. 793,419.

T all whom it mayconcern:

Be 1t known that we, AARON MENDELsoN and SHEPARn J'. GOLDBERG, citizensof the United States, and residents of the city of New York, borough ofBrooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented anew and Improved Cigarette-Box, clear, and exact description.

Our invention has special reference to improvements in boxes for holdingcigarettes and the like and more particularly to improved means forwithdrawing the cigarettes in order to be grasped without handling orbreaking the remaining cigarettes' in the box.

A further object of the invention is to provide a cigarette box whichhas a series of cells or compartments each designed to receive acigarette, while the strips are arranged in said compartments or cellsin such a manner as to project partially therefrom and extend beneaththe cigarettes when the latter are in position, whereas when pull isexerted outwardly upon said strips the cigarettes are projected fromtheir respective cells in such a manner as to be readily grasped by thefingers or by the teeth or mouth of the smoker and removed, thusobviating the usual handling and breaking of the cigarettes as occurswith-the ordinary boxes.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention resides moreparticularly in the perculiar combination and arrangement of parts whichwill be illustrated as a preferred embodiment in the accompanyingdrawings and described in the specification.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis `speciiication, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views, and in which- Figure 1 is aperspective view of the improved cigarette box, the same being shown inopen position with the cigarettes therein and with one of the cigarettesprojected from its cell or compartment; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional viewof the box; and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the box in aclosed position.

. In the illustrated embodiment of the invention, the box isindicated'by the numeral 5 and preferably consists of a single blankbent to provide a closure having front of which the following is afull,4

sition.

Y cell or compartment, as

and rear walls 6 and 7, an edge or side wall 8 and an edge or side wall9 which is suitably attached to an edge portion of the rear wall asshown in Fig. 2 of the drawings'. Also formed of the blank is a bottomwall 10 which is similarly secured along one edge, while formed with theback of the box is a combined top wall 11 and closure iiap 12 whichmaybe secured to the front of the box in any suitable way. It will beobserved that the flap 12 is bent substantially at right angles to thetop wall 1l and is provided with a reduced tongue 13 designed to enter aslit 111 in the front wall of the box so as to retain the closure in anoperative po- The box is also divided by a partition 15 extending fromedge to edge of the same, and by partitions 16 disposed at right anglesthereto and at equi-distantly spaced points vertically of the box toprovide a series of compartments or cells each designed to receive acigarette. or the like 17. In order to remove the cigarettes withouthandling the same in such a manner as to mutilate them, means areprovided which are moved to operative positions when the cigarettes areloaded into the cells or compartments, which means is in the form of aflexible strip 18 preferably of readily breakable and waterproof orimpervious material, such as oiled or parafiin paper and of a lengthapproximately equal to twice the length of the cigarette or of one ofthe compartments. Each strip is anchored at one end, as shown at 19, tothe partition 15- at a -spaced point from the upper edge thereof,whereby when the cigarettes are in position, such` strips will extenddownwardlyv in Contact with the partition and upwardly adjacent thefront and back walls, respectively, so as to pass beneath and around thecigarettes to form impervious linings, while the free ends of the stripswill extend outwardly of the cells to provide grasping portions. Bytaking hold of one of' the strips and exerting pull thereon, the same iswithdrawn from its cell or compartment, and the cigarette beneath whichsaid strip is movable will be elevated or projected from the respectiveclearly shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Thus, the cigarette may begrasped by the hand or in the mouth of the smoker, the strips beingsevered each time that a cigarette is ejected. It will be Patented J une29, 19215 observed that by attaching the strips to the box or itspartition l5, below the exposed or top edge thereof, when pull isexerted upon the strips the cigarettes will be only partially projectedfrom the box and thereby prevented from accidentally falling ont of thesame until firmly grasped.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is 1. A dispensing box for cigarettes,including a body having a closure flap, a vertical partition in theboxextending across the same, transverse partitions intercepting Saidfirst-mentioned partition dividing the box into two rows of a pluralityof compartments across the box, and an independent ejecting strip ofreadily breakable material contained in each compartment forindependently removing the cigarettes and ejecting the same one by one,the remaining cigarettes being undisturbed during such ejecting action.

2. A cigarette holding and dispensing box, comprising a blank folded toprovide a closure having an open end and a cover for said end,partitions arranged at right angles to each other in said box to providea plurality of rows of compartments vdisposed in pairs to containcigarettes with one cigarette in each compartment, one of the partitions-being common to all of the compartments,

flexible strips of readily breakable and waterproof material secured tothe opposed faces of the partition with one strip in each compartmentbelow the exposed top edge thereof and passed downwardly beneath thecigarettes and -upwardly so as to project slightly from the box inedgewise relation at the front and rear thereof to provide linings inthe compartments and grasping portions whereby when pull is exertedthereon the cigarettes may be independently projected partially from'thecompartments.

3. A dispensing box for cigarettes including a body divided into aplurality of compartments transversely thereof, a closure for the bodyand an independent ejecting strip of readily breakable materialcontained in each compartment for independently removing the cigarettesand ejecting the same one by one, said strips being located in edgewiserelation to each other.

4. A cigarette box, comprising a blank folded to provide a closurehaving an open end, a cover for said end having an extended flap,partitions arranged at right angles to each other in said box to providea plurality of rowsof compartments designed to contain cigarettes, aflexible and readilj breakable strip of impervious material secured tothe opposed faces of the partition of each compartment below the exposededge thereof and passed downwardlybeneath the cigarette and upwardly soas to project from the upper ends of the compartments near the front andrear walls of the box in edgewise alinement to provide grasping portionsadapted to overlap when the box is closed, said strips forming liningsfor the compartments throughout the widths thereof and being designedwhen pull is exerted thereon to partially project the cigarettes fromthe compartments and to be detached with the removing of the cigarettes.

5. A cigarette holding and dispensing box, comprising a body having topand bottom portions,partitions arranged in said box to pivovide aplurality of rows of compartments disposed in plural series to containcigarettes and the like with one cigarette in each compartment, flexiblestrips of readily breakable material secured to the opposed faces of thepartitions with one strip in each compartment below the top edge thereofand passed downwardly beneath the cigarettes and -upwardly so as 'toproject from the box at or near nthe upper ends of the compartments toprovlde grasping portions adapted to permit independent partial ejectionof the cigarettes, said strips forming impervious linings for thecompartments facilitating the free ejection of the cigarettes.

ln testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AARON ll/HENDELSON. SHEPARD J. GOLDBERG.

`iflfitnesses JOHN BURCH, PHILIP D. Romaans.

